The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.